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1  And this life suddenly seemed to Pierre unexpectedly loathsome.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
2  "Go on, Uncle dear," Natasha wailed in an imploring tone as if her life depended on it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
3  It hurt her to think that while she lived only in the thought of him, he was living a real life, seeing new places and new people that interested him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
4  Though Daniel was not a big man, to see him in a room was like seeing a horse or a bear on the floor among the furniture and surroundings of human life.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
5  They had not as many visitors as before, but the old habits of life without which the count and countess could not conceive of existence remained unchanged.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII
6  Only after emptying a bottle or two did he feel dimly that the terribly tangled skein of life which previously had terrified him was not as dreadful as he had thought.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
7  Reading these letters, Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
8  Only the skeleton of life remained: his house, a brilliant wife who now enjoyed the favors of a very important personage, acquaintance with all Petersburg, and his court service with its dull formalities.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
9  Pierre no longer suffered moments of despair, hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and never left him for a moment.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
10  He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
11  Rostov had become a bluff, good-natured fellow, whom his Moscow acquaintances would have considered rather bad form, but who was liked and respected by his comrades, subordinates, and superiors, and was well contented with his life.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
12  It was not necessary to entertain so freely as when the count had been Marshal, and life at Otradnoe was quieter than in former years, but still the enormous house and its lodges were full of people and more than twenty sat down to table every day.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII
13  To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in wine, and some in governmental affairs.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
14  He felt that sooner or later he would have to re-enter that whirlpool of life, with its embarrassments and affairs to be straightened out, its accounts with stewards, quarrels, and intrigues, its ties, society, and with Sonya's love and his promise to her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
15  He ceased keeping a diary, avoided the company of the Brothers, began going to the club again, drank a great deal, and came once more in touch with the bachelor sets, leading such a life that the Countess Helene thought it necessary to speak severely to him about it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
16  Natasha was still as much in love with her betrothed, found the same comfort in that love, and was still as ready to throw herself into all the pleasures of life as before; but at the end of the fourth month of their separation she began to have fits of depression which she could not master.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII
17  Sometimes he consoled himself with the thought that he was only living this life temporarily; but then he was shocked by the thought of how many, like himself, had entered that life and that club temporarily, with all their teeth and hair, and had only left it when not a single tooth or hair remained.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
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